Chinese Almanac for 2025-12-04
2025-12-04 is Lunar month 10, day 15 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ding Wei day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-12-04 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 10, day 15 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Hai (Pig) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Wei (Goat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Install machinery (安机械)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Move house (移徙)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Open for business (开市)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Six Rites (六仪), Blessing Birth (福生), Bright Hall (明堂)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Facing Aversion (厌对), Beckoning Star (招摇), Four Strikes (四击), Departure and Loss (往亡), Eight Specialization (八专)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Ox (Xin Chou day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ding (Yin Fire) day: traditionally, hair is not cut, as it is said sores will form on the head.
Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | West |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-12-04 corresponds to Lunar month 10, day 15 on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar.
What should be avoided on this day?
Traditional almanac sources list the items under Inauspicious for (忌) above as activities best avoided on this day.
Which zodiac year is this day in?
2025-12-04 falls in the Yi Si year, the year of the Snake.
Solar terms: astronomical calculation. Daily do's and don'ts, auspicious/inauspicious spirits, clashes, and Peng Zu's taboos: Xieji Bianfangshu (协纪辨方书) tradition, as encoded in lunar-typescript · Last updated 2026-09-11